AP PhotoThe most prominent of the Flintstones, Morris Peterson helped put Flint back on the basketball map during his college days playing for Tom Izzo at Michigan State. Peterson, along with former teammate Mateen Cleaves, were interviewed as part of a recent ESPN profile of Flint's prodigious basketball heritage.

Get a guy from Flint to write this story, ESPN. Everything some writer in the People's Republic of Ann Arbor knows about Flint has been written ad nauseam. (Remember the "Mean Streets of Dreams" series in The Sporting News?)

The Mateen Cleaves, Morris Peterson (The Flintstones) angle has been drawn and drawn again.

How can you write about basketball in Flint without mentioning Trent Tucker, Jeff? Further, there is no mention of Mott Community College, arguably the top junior college basketball program in the country that just happens to be in Flint.

With a little research, one could find a lot of lesser-known Flint basketball connections.

What about Lenny Cooke, the superstar swingman out of New Jersey who was hyped to be the equal of Lebron James, one year his junior. He lived in Flint for a brief period of time.

Better angles, all, than the same old Flintstone drivel.

It's nothing personal, Jeff, but if you're going to get criticized for a special on Flint basketball it may as well come from the self-glossed "basketball city blog." No hard feelings.

A little housekeeping
In the 1970s the population of Flint was not 131,000 -- it was actually closer to 200,000. These days? Well, let's just say that the last person out should lock up the balls and flip the switch.